Those days

Today I had the best training session I have ever had since dont know when. It is not just the massive pump I felt in my forearms. Neither is it the ultimate shagness I felt after doing finger board.

It was how everyone pushed each other on as we did our "CAMPUS till failure exercise"

Dont exactly know how to describe it here but seriously, the spirit was there. FINALLY. Finally I could feel it in the team. Listening to your team mates' encouragement as you struggle up the 3rd lap is really nice.

It just makes you wanna push one more for them.

"Come on man, Just one more! Just one more! COME on. ALE! Come on!"

The same few words work wonders. Really surprised how those people shouting behind you can help spur you on. Getting past one rung... and then another.. and then another.... and then another till u really really max out your limit. Of cos, besides the cheering, you need to WANT to do it also. I would say that personal belief and the cheering come hand in hand.

Brings back the memories of my early years training in NUS. Those were the days when we hung super massive amount of weights, trying to just squeeze one more pull up. And as usual, you will always have the support of your team, making you just want to give your 101% percent.

Thats what I like about this team. Somehow this aspect of training was sadly lost along the way. But finally, after so long, the feeling is back again. That keeps me going in the TEAM. Knowing that your team mates are always supporting you. Thats my team for you.

As I proceed into the final stage of my uni life, I suddenly realised my time with the team becomes countable and limited. Slowly, new juniors fill in the gaps left behind by graduating seniors in this place I call my Second home. This final year with the team have thus far been good. With credits going to the nice juniors, from naive and perverted buy strongly keen to learn Yr1s, SUPER self motivated and inspiring year2s, Ever so caring yr3s and finally my batch of yr4s who stood strong throughout these 4 years with me.

Thanks to Jiawei for helping me find the answer to my question today. Greatly appreciated.

EMO NEMO

Major shift

Its time for me to blog again.

After much consideration, I have decided to make a major shift. As some of you might have already known, I am applying for a scholarship given by SGH. It is for MASTERS in physiotherapy (entry level). It involves a 2 yearss study in Australia, followed by a 4yrs bond with SGH.

Definitely a big major shift for me (as quoted by my prof). I am not sure if I am able to put everything down in pursue of what I have been wanting. I just hope that if i do get it, the 2years will flash by quickly.

I hope that things do not change back in Singapore (though I know it will be hard)

I hope that my friends and clique are still together when I am back if I were to go for the scholarship.

I am in a dilemma right now. Lets just try applying and see how it goes from there. Two years overseas seems long... But it is not too long either... Hmm..

HOW?

Rigidity

What a great start to a wonderful 2010.

Firstly, I started after this serious kick ass back pain. Finally managed to see Dr Victor Loh who diagnosed it as slipped disc. Early stages thou. Reversible if taken care of. SO he recommended pilates, swimming and physio. Hmm..

Next, due to my back, I havent been climbing much. Hence I cant take part in bouldermania. Taking climbing from me is like SERIOUSLY irritating. It is no fun when you see your peers catching up to you while you are handicapped. SERIOUSLY. IT IS KILLING ME. I may appear happy about not climbing. But seriously I am not.

Next, FYP on the other hand is killing me, even though it has managed to distract me from climbing. Results are not consistent. No time to repeat. Tonnes of data to collate. Havent settled much of my stuff. IT IS SERIOUSLY TIME TO GET ORGANISED DAMN IT. F!@#$%^

Next, my world class institute NUS has this screwed up CORS system that decided to go against me during my graduating sem. I am currently holding on to one of two cores that I need to grad. AND THE LSOC is simply refusing to grant my appeal. SO MUCH FOR YOUR GOAL OF ASSISTING STUDENTS IN ACADEMIC MATTERS. ALL YOU DO IS PUSH STUDENTS AWAY, SAVING YOURSELF FROM ALL THE DAMN HASSLE AND COLLECT YOUR SALARY WHILE SITTING IN THE DAMN AIRCON ROOM, SIPPING YOUR HOT COFFEE, READING DESPERATE APPEALS OF STUDENTS WHO BOTHER TO GO SCHOOL @ 9am TO MAKE THE DAMN APPEAL. SERIOUSLY! I THANK YOU. AND I HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR COFFEE. !@#$%^&

Hmm... Seriously. 4.03 is hanging by a thread. And things seem to be out of my control currently.

Lousy lesson timetable with lessons on monday till thursday. Which means no time for western blotting. SERIOUSLY....

I just need some air..........

2010

Happy new year to everyone out there...

Not going to make any public resolutions....

Cos people might make a joke out of it...

So well,

time to heal my back. Meaning no climbing for at least a week...

Take care people.

Literally Broke Back

Hmm... My back hurts.. Like seriously... To the stage that I cant really walk properly...

I injured it once in CA before... Equally bad...

Could be a relapse.... Hmm... The pain goes to the thigh as well...

Saw a doctr @ UHC. After doing sme stretching, he concluded that

1. I have excellent flexibility
2. I have a slightly crooked spinal cord
3. It is a muscle injury (right lumbar) and I shouldnt be too worried

AND... ALL he prescribed was a tube of COUNTERPAIN. !@#$%$^&*((*@#@%^&*&^

oh well.... Not selected for Bouldermania. Partly it was my choice.. And also I am not in the best of conditions with this back problem and FYP... oh well.. Till my back recovers, I will probably stay away from rock. And I seriously need to train hard... To prove that I can still do it....

So looking forward to the grad trip. And come to think about it... I will be spending my birthday overseas...

And I found an iinteresting job online. @ HSA as an forensic scientist. Challenging! KIV yeah?

some random photos....

ONE NIGHT @ ICE CREAM CHEF.... IT WAS THE BATTLE OF THE IPHONEs......

Vincent trying to be funny...

CAUGHT

Long time

Ok. Christmas is over. A couple of nice gifts... Dragon pants. Dragon 3quarts. 20L Ocean Pack from Ken.

Thanks everyone. Sorry yixiang that you got my lousy organiser. Well... At least it is a MUJI organiser and not some cheapo one. Sorry once again.

24th Dec dinner was at Foo Lin Yong Tau Foo. Next,I spent some time surprising Michelle @ her place with Yixiang and Matt. Vincent couldnt make it cos he was at sister's island. Got her a UNIQLO purple jeans. hopefully she likes it. Felt abit awkward to be invited into the house thou. Cos we are like leeching on the free food. Oh well. Played with two dogs! Pebble and Spiky. Cute! Photos FB. Then it was off to some Tau Huay place @ geylang to meet Jud, Ken, Shu and Bert. They were at Timbre.

25th Dec was spent @ KEN's PLACE!!! WII to the max! till 0145h! hahaha! ok. I am officially the toilet paper! Sucked @ it.

26th Dec was spent @ FEL's place. Hmm... Last min gift shopping. Lousy present choice. Oh well... Food and company were ok at FEL's place. First defeat of the season in MJ. Didnt enjoy it cos it was noisy and everyone was crowding around and stuff. Not the most conducive environment for MJ. Oh well... Expensive dinner...

Oh.. 27th I collected my LEvis Jeans that Ibought on 26th! Same cutting. 522. Keep spending alot of money... Eyeing a couple more tops and bottoms...

BUT I GOT TO SAVE. GRAD TRIP IS coming up real soon.... ZHAOXIU!!!! COME COME!!!!!!!

Hmm... Forgot to mention my results.... NOt fantastic.. But manageable..

Toxicology- A-
Understanding the Universe - A-
Cell biology- B
Pharmacogenetics- B

Overall Cap 4.03.

Hanging by a thread. All down to FYP... Time to head to the lab.....

YAWN..

There is this pain in my lower back. Strains all the way down to my right leg.. Bothering me... DAMn.

Vertigo Convertant

Back from a great short trip with Vince, Jenny, Clara, Youjie, Jud, Lala and Ken. Super fun bunch of people to go on a trip with.

All very easy-going. Not wishy washy. Very decisive. Not much time wasted deciding what to eat unlike some other trips. Very efficient!

Food.
We had a great variety. From 530am dimsum, to ramly burgers, to Fexpensive Chilli's, to cheap cheap fish and chips and not forgetting all time favourtie Secret Recipe.

10points deducted from Secret Recipe @ Bukit Bintang thou. For the Fousy customer service. How can a secret recipe staff not know what cake he is serving.

Weather

The weather in KL was hot as usual, measuring up to 36C at one point in time. The last day rained however. It was deja vu all again. haHaa. reminder of what happen for a previous team trip where it flooded pretty bad. We were lucky this time round though as we managed to escape the downpour in time.

Climbing

Climbing was good. Very focused. My aim for the trip was to do vertical and I achieved it. Totally. Spent 90% of my time there climbing high wall. Alot of interesting routes. But I kinda focused more on the more inclined walls rather than the chimney, balancing routes. Managed to send two 7a+s! Not sure if the grades are really solid. But still, it was really a personal achievement for me! Never thought I could send anything harder than a 6b+. So these sends kinda motivated me for the trip.

Somehow I manage to find some sort of serenity when I am doing vertical. I like it.

Overall, it was a great trip. Cheap movies, Cheap food, SO-SO lodging, and most importantly, Great COMPANY.

Youjie, Jensen- All the best with your work
Clara- All the best for your 50pages FYP
Ken- Hope you regained your confidence!
vincent- Thanks for the talkie! and........................so.........WHATCHA SAY!
Jud, lala- UTU results coming out!!!!

Vertigo

Alright.

Heading for Camp5 with the lonely souls left in Singapore

11-14th Dec.

Short trip.

Good break from FYP.

Hopefully my climbing at CA will help me conquer some rutes in Camp5.

Going to upload Progression into my PSP and watch it before climbing. Hopefully can get some psyche into me. ok. Lame.

Take care people.

Yixiang, hope you send some hard stuff in CM.

Down

Hmmm... Exams over not too long ago....

Hopefully CAP wont drop too much. Papers were ok. Eventually it will be down to my FYP.

The team is heading for Chiangmai tmr. I have never missed a team trip before. This is the first time. Due to FYP again. It is depressing? Depressing that I am unable to attend the last team trip. Love team trip. For the climbing as well as company. Hmm....DAMN IT. oh well... I know I have to save up for my own grad trip too... Oh well.... Please take care in Chiangmai.

FYP haven been very smooth. Alot of weird results. And I wasted on INSULIN kit worth $350 last week. Forgot to centrifuge the samples. Plus mentor told me wrong dilution factor = GG. Lucky supervisor nice enough to buy one more for me. Progress really slow. Lots of assays to do... LOTS of readings to do to support the results. LOTS of data to tabulate. OMG.

IT IS THE FREAKING HOLIDAYS DAMN IT. It doesnt feel like it at all....

Hmm.. One last sem to go. One last hurdle.

One last competition season with the team. Probably what I will miss most about my 4years in university. Somewhere I call my second home.....

To Yixiang, MAtthew and Clara, All the best for your MARATHON! Too bad I cant join you guys this year due to my lousy knees. RUN for me!!!

To the team, Have a uber safe trip. See you guys soon.............

It just sOOoooooooooooooooooooooo...........................................

Winter Solstice

Managed to catch 2012 today. First row but it was worth every cent of my $8. Hands Down.

Alot of after thoughts. Firstly, I could relate to a few of my acquired knowledge from Understanding the Universe module..... Planets...Prominence...Solar Flare and every other stuff.

I felt that it was all so real. I mean.. Scientists have proven that it will not happen to Earth in the near future at least millions of year.....



BUT... Still... The magnitude of destruction is unforgiving. it is like FHUGEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeee. ASTRONOMICAL! oh my.....It wakes you up as a person and makes you wonder about how small mankind is compared to nature. Be nice to Earth. Hard to explain in words. But really sets you thinking what you do when such a calamity actually happen.

Seriously....It MIGHT happen. And what will happen to us then? Small fry like me would have the buying chip to get myself a spot for any form of survival transport.

The image of humanity struggling desperately for survival against the forces of nature.

How people (leaders) standing up for their beliefs and not leaving their men behind.

The unconditional love of parents.....Sacrificing themselves for the love one.

The dilemma in decision making - Whether to save all and jeopardize the survival of our Species or to be objective in the pragmatic world.

Dirty politics and the power of money.....

Go watch it people. feel the power of mother Earth. PLANET. haha. ok lame.

Finally. $8.50 for 50mins of parking. BEAT THAT. damn it.